Biography

Thomas Mitchell was one of the great American character actors, whose credits read like a list of the greatest American films of the 20th century: Lost Horizon (1937); Stagecoach (1939); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Gone with the Wind (1939); It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and High Noon (1952). His portrayals are so diverse and convincing that most people don't even realize that one actor could have played them all. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1940 for his role as the drunken Doc Boone in John Ford's Stagecoach (1939).

The Big Step(1961)as Magazine Editor

Pocketful of Miracles(1961)as Judge Henry G. Blake

By Love Possessed(1961)as Noah Tuttle

The Perry Como Show(1948)as Self - Guest

Project Twenty(1954)as Self - Narrator

World Wide '60(1960)as Librarian

Compression(1995)as Self

Next Stop, Christmas(2021)as Kris Kringle

I Am Not Your Negro(2016)as Doc Josiah Boone (clip from Stagecoach (1939))

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#	Name	Score	Year	Win	Nom	Known	★	Wins	Noms	Votes
1	Stagecoach	500.00	1939	•	•	•	7.8	2	7	58863
2	Gone with the Wind	62.40	1940			•	8.2	8	13	356581
3	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	40.00	1939			•	8.1	1	11	129502
4	The Hurricane	37.50	1938		•	•	7.1	1	3	3385
5	It's a Wonderful Life	32.50	1947			•	8.6	0	5	554615
6	High Noon	10.40	1952				7.9	4	7	116413
7	The Ford Television Theatre	9.75	1952		•		7.2	0	1	291
8	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	6.50	1939			•	7.8	0	2	13342
9	Make Way for Tomorrow	5.20	1937				8.1	0	0	10622
10	Only Angels Have Wings	5.00	1939			•	7.6	0	1	17379